{"id":497,"date":"2009-03-30T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-03-30T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:53:26","slug":"they-take-the-vex-out-of-vexillology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"They Take the Vex out of Vexillology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Australian<\/p>\n

The Internet’s largest site devoted to the study of flags<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It may sound like trainspotting, but I’ve been sucked in a bit by the precision of the facts.<\/p>\n

For example, the US flag isn’t just Red, White, and Blue. It’s:<\/p>\n

Cable No. 70180 Old Glory Red
\nCable No. 70001 White
\nCable No. 70075 Old Glory Blue<\/p>\n

For the Aussie flag (shown above):<\/p>\n

“The outer radius of the 7-pointed stars in the Southern Cross should be 1\/14 the width of the fly (the “height” of the flag). For the 5-pointed star it should be 1\/24. The Commonwealth star should be 3\/20. In each case, the inner radius should be 4\/9 of the outer radius.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Internet’s largest site devoted to the study of flags. It may sound like trainspotting, but I’ve been sucked in a bit by the precision of the facts. For example, the US flag isn’t just Red, White, and Blue. It’s: Cable No. 70180 Old Glory Red Cable No. 70001 White Cable No. 70075 Old Glory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}